The Narrow Circle
Author: Hoks, Nathan
ISBN: 9780143123736
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Jun 2013
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young/b>br>John Ashbery calledi>Reveilles/i>, Nathan Hoks's debut book, a "dazzling" collection and Hoks a poet whose "fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully."The poems in Hoks's new book,i>The Narrow Circle/i>, perform a similar magic. In associative lyrics and fabulist prose, Hoks explores inner and outer experiences.The poems frequently focus on the body as a membrane where everything becomes inside-out-where the "face disperses with angels of teeth and loam," where "sky comes out of the mouth," where a giant green worm "burrows a hole in the head," and where the heart is a vestibule that cannot be closed.Suites of pictures within the text further delineate this inward-outward pull, offering visualizations of interior voices and sketches of exterior shadows.br>
ISBN: 9780143123736
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Jun 2013
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young/b>br>John Ashbery calledi>Reveilles/i>, Nathan Hoks's debut book, a "dazzling" collection and Hoks a poet whose "fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully."The poems in Hoks's new book,i>The Narrow Circle/i>, perform a similar magic. In associative lyrics and fabulist prose, Hoks explores inner and outer experiences.The poems frequently focus on the body as a membrane where everything becomes inside-out-where the "face disperses with angels of teeth and loam," where "sky comes out of the mouth," where a giant green worm "burrows a hole in the head," and where the heart is a vestibule that cannot be closed.Suites of pictures within the text further delineate this inward-outward pull, offering visualizations of interior voices and sketches of exterior shadows.br>
